Hotmail, MSN messenger and Windows Live Spaces down
February 17th, 2010 - 1:08 am ICT by admin ( 4 comments )By Sajal Kayan
Feb 16 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Microsoft’s MSN Messenger and Windows Live Spaces (previously known as MSN Spaces) appear to be offline at the moment. Multiple users reported service errors on Tuesday evening as they tried to login to the popular chat software.
While trying to access the Windows Live Spaces Website ( http://spaces.live.com/ ), it simply shows the message “Service Unavailable” on a blank page with no title. Hotmail.com also gives the same error.
On accessing http://messengersays.spaces.live.com/ an error message “Sorry, Spaces is temporarily unavailable at this time. The service is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later.” is shown.
At the time of writing, we could not check to see if the reason for the outage was reported on Windows Live Spaces Team Blog ( http://thespacecraft.spaces.live.com/ ) or not, as it too was showing the same “Service Unavailable” error message.
Edit 1:20pm ET : Removed speculation of cyber terrorism
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February 17th, 2010 at 1:14 am
“Popular social networking sites and blogs have often been the target of cyber terrorists in the past. And it seems that this time around, Microsoft may be the victim.”
Projecting here? Maybe someone just plain screwed up DNS update…
February 17th, 2010 at 1:28 am
I was in my account about an hour ago and all of a sudden it signed me out? When I went back in to my account, it WAS NOT my account. Tried again on another system, mobile phone, and same thing happened and again NOT my account and not what info showed up before. Googling got me to possible hijack occured. Been on their windowslivehelp.com since and now 10 minutes ago they finally put up a flag that they are “experiencing issues”.
February 17th, 2010 at 1:34 am
@Michael : Thanks for your comment. That was a speculation. Its been edited out of the story now.
February 18th, 2010 at 5:09 am
Cheers evryone xx oo